Dennis Prager Quotes

Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

It often seems... the human race has twittered away its existence singing an endless song - a song of waste and hatred, where there should be progress and love.

No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.

If the gods listened to the prayers of men, all humankind would quickly perish since they constantly pray for many evils to befall one another.

Six "social sins" which Jesus bore on the Cross: Religious bigotry, the combination of graft and political power, the corruption of justice, the mob spirit and mob action, militarism, and class contempt.

The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.

We, as human beings, have the capacity for extreme cruelty.

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone considered undesirable seems to be a common temptation, not always resisted.

Man is subject to innumerable pains and sorrows by the very condition of humanity, and yet, as if nature had not sown evils enough in life, we are continually adding grief to grief and aggravating the common calamity by our cruel treatment of one another.

We don't live in a particularly attractive world. I don't really remember, except as a small boy, anything but a pretty grim world.

The truth, of course, is that the only necessary and sufficient condition for human beings to murder one another is the simple fact of being human.

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like that. They just happen, it's human.

The real world is horrible.

There is no limit to suffering human beings have been willing to inflict on others, no matter how innocent, no matter how young, and no matter how old. This fact must lead all reasonable human beings, that is, all human beings who take evidence seriously, to draw only one possible conclusion: Human nature is not basically good.

War itself is the enemy of the human race.

I'm fascinated by what people will do to each other. Actually, I'm sort of interested in the gory details of life.

The bulk of mankind have indeed, in all countries in their turn, been made the prey of ambition.

I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority

Human life has become cheap. It is cheaper than the paper on which the executioner writes the order to destroy it. It is cheaper than the increased bread rations, for which a hired murderer is ready to send a person to the next world on the orders of the first villain who seizes power. This bloody debauchery is being carried out in the name of socialism, in the name of that teaching which proclaimed the brotherhood of working people the highest goal of humanity.

Before long, all those bloody butcheries and massacres [violent revolutions] must arouse against them everything that is human in man.

The greatest enemy to man is man.

It is a sin peculiar to man to hate his victim.

[A] representative of... a government whose Three Graces are Tyranny, Rapacity, Blood.